lol i highly doubt that. even if thats the case, i doubt "your friends who listen to hip hop" are a viable subsection of the hip hop listening diagraphic. the millions of people who listen to radio hip hop have no idea who gza is. thats why 50 cent and soulja boy never responded to his diss in paper planes.

one has to recognize the wu-tang, not just the gza, as forefathers to modern underground hiphop, even if they themselves are pretty much a mainstream act. the fact is that they pioneered the underground sound, and, at least in the beginning, the aesthetic that gave helped inspire underground hiphop. arguing about the wu-tang being "underground rap", is like arguing about the clash being a "punk" band.

Lol Mitch that's ridiculous. You're saying people who you don't even know are hip- hop heads who know a lot about music. Tbh most of the people I know who listen to hip hop know GZA as well and besides that they know nothing about hip-hop. They couldn't even tell you who Aesop Rock was.